New recommendations detail key points of deprescribing ...

Consensus Offers Clinicians Structured Guidance on When and How to Reassess, Taper, or Discontinue Psychotropic ...

A DNA test could help match patients with psychiatric medications, potentially reducing the long and frustrating ...

Clinical circumstances warrant discontinuing certain psychotropic medications, according to a February consensus statement published in JAMA Network Open. “The process should be deliberative, ...

The researchers found that psychotropic medication use among youth increased from 5.3% in 2001 to 2004 to 8.3% in 2017 to March 2020 (adjusted time trend, 0.7 percentage points over four years).

Credit: Getty Images. The patient had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, and suffered from auditory and visual hallucinations, delusions, and extreme paranoia. In this month’s case, a state appeals ...

Media outlets are increasingly reporting on the CIA’s behavioral research programs of the 1950s and 1960s, which experimented with drugs and ...

Norway has announced the opening of the first psychiatric hospital where medication will not be used as a means of treatment. This experiment should be acknowledged and applauded. Contemporary Western ...

Findings showed no significant difference in the risk of contraceptive failure between COC + PD users and COC-only users. The risk of contraceptive failure appears to be low in patients taking ...

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The Trump administration's plans to study the "threat” posed by psychiatric medications in children have medical societies and mental health professionals concerned that the administration may be ...